Information Ethics in Africa: - Africa Information Ethics Portal

About the AuthorsAbout the AuthorsJohannes Britz holds two Doctoral degrees from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He obtainedhis first Doctoral degree (Doctor Divinitatis) in Christian Ethics and the second (Doctor Philosophia) inInformation Science. He is currently serving as Provost/Vice Chancellor and Professor at theUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, USA, and Professor Extraordinary at the School ofInformation Technology at the University of Pretoria. He is also Research Fellow/Associate at theUniversity of Zululand and a visiting scholar at the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) where hehas lectured on Information Ethics since 1994. Dr Britz is co-editor of the International Review ofInformation Ethics (IRIE), Research Issues in Information Studies: Some African Perspectives andserves on the editorial board of the Library and Information Science Research Journal of theUniversity of Bucharest. He is a member of the advisory board of the South Africa Journal of Libraryand Information Science, as well as Inkanyiso: Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences.britz@uwm.edu.Rafael Capurro has a PhD in Philosophy from Düsseldorf University, Germany (1978). He achievedhis Postdoctoral teaching qualification (Habilitation) in Practical Philosophy (Ethics) from StuttgartUniversity, Germany (1989) and later became Professor (em.) of Information Science and InformationEthics at the Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart and Lecturer in Ethics at the University of Stuttgart(1986-2009). Currently, he is Director of the International Center for Information Ethics (ICIE) (1999 topresent) and the Editor-in-Chief of the International Review of Information Ethics (IRIE) (2004 topresent). He is also a Distinguished Researcher at both the African Centre of Excellence forInformation Ethics (ACEIE) at the Information Science Department, University of Pretoria, SA, and inInformation Ethics, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA. And aformer member of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE) of theEuropean Commission (2000-2010). http://www.capurro.de/home-eng.html.Dick Kawooya is an Assistant Professor at the School of Library and Information Science, Universityof South Carolina, USA. His PhD in Communication and Information was completed in 2010 at theUniversity of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA. His Doctoral research (dissertation) explores Ugandantraditional musicians' construction of ownership. His broad research interests focus on the impact andmanifestation of Intellectual Property Rights in Africa’s informal sectors. He was the recipient of the2006-07 International Policy Fellowship of the Open Society Institute (OSI) and the Centre for PolicyStudies at the Central European University (CEU). The Fellowship research focused on the impact ofcopyright on access to e-resources in Uganda’s teaching and research environments. Prof. Kawooyais also a member of the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) Copyright Expert Group. In 2005-2006, heserved as the National Copyright Expert to eIFL.IP, representing the Consortium of UgandanUniversity Libraries (CUUL). His most recent work involves serving as the Lead Researcher of theAfrican Copyright and Access to Knowledge (ACA2K) project (www.aca2k.org).kawooya@mailbox.sc.edu.Stephen Mutula is a professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He was formerlyHead of the Department of Library and Information Studies at the University of Botswana. He holds aPhD and Master’s degree in Information Science, a Postgraduate diploma in Computer Science, anda Bachelor’s degree in Education from the Universities of Johannesburg (SA), Wales (UK), andNairobi (Kenya). He is the author of Web-Based Information Management: A Cross-Disciplinary Text,and the co-editor of Information and Knowledge Management in the Digital Age: Concepts,Technologies and African Perspectives (Third World Information Services, Ibadan, Nigeria).MutulaS@ukzn.ac.za.Page v